{"id":1478,"date":"2010-06-16T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T00:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2010-06-17T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T17:28:36","slug":"shanghai-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/shanghai-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some computerish graphicsy photos from my trip to Shanghai. First, they’ve got the right definition of 3D:<\/p>\n

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But what about Cartesian coordinates? This pavilion certainly predates those, definitely 3D:<\/p>\n

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A cool sculpture from the World Expo (Robin Green comments “…hsync timing issues”):<\/p>\n

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Thomas, a happy customer of our 2nd edition:<\/p>\n

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Given the number of “name-brand” watches, purses, clothing, software, etc. in the (literally underground) market at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum metro stop, name infringement like this is very small potatoes:<\/p>\n

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Magical technology from this market, no doubt shipped back from the future: USB flash drives with up to 880 GB!<\/p>\n

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Near as we can tell, they hack the driver on a small flash drive to make it look like 880 GB or whatever to your computer. Think of them as “write-only USBs”. Just as well: if you were to try to fill a real drive of this size at its 7 MB\/sec transfer rate, it would take 35 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some computerish graphicsy photos from my trip to Shanghai. First, they’ve got the right definition of 3D: But what about Cartesian coordinates? This pavilion certainly predates those, definitely 3D: A cool sculpture from the World Expo (Robin Green comments “…hsync timing issues”): Thomas, a happy customer of our 2nd edition: Given the number of “name-brand” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[397,398],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-shanghai","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}